now i know what you're thinking riley what happened to your glorious hair and
the answer is i got a bad haircut no one else cares
did you just fart are you tired of hearing about processor vulnerabilities
yet it doesn't matter because processor vulnerabilities are upon you gonda calls
for aid that's the lord of the rings reference the latest flaw has been
dubbed lvi for load value injection unlike other recent CPU flaws like
meltdown spectre and zombieload which leaks data from the victim to the hacker
lvi injects malicious data through hidden processor buffers
whether you like it or not the attackers can then run commands to acquire
information like passwords and fingerprints existing patches for those
other attacks will not mitigate lvi so even more patches will be required which
will probably have an impact on performance lvi is such a big deal that
the researchers who discovered it parodied the inception trailer shot for
shot to announce it
like shouldn't they be working on the fix or something it's oh that's Intel's
job okay and also there's a pretty severe Windows vulnerability that
doesn't have a patch yet in case you weren't feeling vulnerable enough
welcome to 2020. the current health-related crisis that we're not
sure whether we can say the name of yet has officially been labeled a pandemic
by the world health organization so it makes sense that virtually every public
event in the next few months is being canceled or postponed postpo e3 is officially no
longer happening although ubisoft and xbox are planning digital events to get
out their announcements likewise the game developers conference and NVIDIA's
GPU technology conference are both being moved online gdc talks will be streamed
for free while gtc will essentially be a press release followed by an investor
call htc's vive ecosystem conference
will be held in vr instead of in person and huawei will host their p40 pro
launch online media expo nab 2020 has
been canceled coachella's postponed to october and the new york auto shows
pushed to august cadillac didn't have a big show planned
but they have rolled out their live virtual showroom to all 50 u.s states
just in time so hey even if you can't go outside
at least you can buy a cadillac looks great
this pandemic is really testing modern society's capability to function as an
online only thing but there is some good news in
south korea and now parts of the us drive-through clinics are being set up
where people can quickly get tested and at a white house meeting health
insurance companies said they'd provide free testing and in some cases treatment
for patients so sounds pretty communist to me
yeah wait a second so the important thing here is not to panic just hunker
down play some games for a while or make a shot for shot recreation of the
inception training ltx huh ltx is
probably still gonna happen but we're keeping an eye on this situation there's a link there we'll have a link i don't
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quick bits the eu is working on legislation that
would grant users a right to repair their devices requiring manufacturers of
phones tablets and laptops to use replaceable and repairable parts please
let me prepare the things i buy who was that i'm a repair elf you know
for a potentially bloated government body the eu is pretty pro-consumer and
pro-environment like britain broke up with them but maybe they were the one all along
the one they shouldn't have let go what do we know we're canadian google's pixel
4a is the internet's new worst kept secret as a pretty extensive hands-on
video has hit the web along with a billboard mock-up claiming the phone
will start at 3.99 the 4a will reportedly feature a headphone jack rear
mounted fingerprint sensor a punch hole selfie camera and a snapdragon 730
inside leaks like this are kind of less fun when you find out like everything
right away like i want to be teased a little bit give us a little mystery yeah where's
the romance google google
at the satellite 2020 conference elon musk said that spacex starlink satellite
internet will have latency low enough for competitive gaming the company is
aiming for latency below 20 milliseconds which is actually similar to what you
get with your average wired broadband plus you can tell your opponents that
you just headshotted them from space
gotcha google has finally added 4k streaming to stadia which is great
except it's not because it's not actually 4k it's 1800p
which is upscaled to 2160p
frankly that's appalling to me because i wanted to burn through my data cap as
quickly as possible and no you're not tripping balls playstation just released
the game on Windows sony and their first party studio
gorilla games announced that former ps4 exclusive horizon zero dawn is coming to
pc this summer and you can deal with it playstation fans will be way better at
head shotting robot dinosaurs than you alright that's it for this one guys
we'll have more tech news on friday but hopefully this is enough to tide you
over because it doesn't happen anywhere else as far as i'm aware